Book History Reader

ISBN-10: 0415226589

ISBN-13: 9780415226585

Edition: 2001

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The editors illustrate how book history studies have evolved into a broad approach which incorporates social and cultural considerations governing the production, dissemination and reception of print and texts.

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David Finkelstein is a research professor of media and print culture at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh.

Alistair McCleery is Professor of Literature and Culture at Napier University in Edinburgh. He is co-author with David Finkelstein of the two standard textbooks in the field,<i An Introduction to Book History</I (Routledge 2005) and <i The Book History Reader</i (Revised Edition, Routledge 2006). He also co-edits <i The Bibliotheck</i , a journal of bibliography and book history. He has published widely on Scottish and Irish literature, particularly Neil Gunn and James Joyce.

General Introduction What is Book History

Section Introduction

What is the History of Books

The Book as an Expressive Form

A New Model for the Study of the Book

The Socialization of Texts

Labourers and Voyagers: From the Text to the Reader

The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book

The Filed of Cultural Production - Bourdieu From Orality to Literacy

Section Introduction

Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the World

The Practical Impact of Writing

The Body of the Book: The Media Transition from Manuscript to Print - Muller

Defining the Initial Shift; some features of print culture

The Indian ecumene; an indigenous public sphere

The Sociology of a Text: Orality, Literacy and Print in Early New Zealand - Mckenzie Commodifying Print: Books and Authors

Section Introduction

The Death of the Author

What is an Author

Literary Property Determined

Authors, Publishers and the Making of Literary Culture

Masterpiece Theatre: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation

The Victorian Novelists: Who Were They - Sutherland

The Magazine Market - West

Anyone of Everybody: Net Books and Howard's End - Feltes Book s and Readers

Section Introduction

Interaction between Reader and Text - Iser

Literacy Instruction and Gender in Colonial New England

Reading Practices - Flint

Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to a History of Audience

The English Common Reader

Interpreting the Variorium

A Feeling for Books: The Book of the Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire

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